Connecticut western news., 1887-09-21
THE SENTENCE CONFIRMED. Tho Chicago Anarchists to Hang
 Points of the Judgment.

The Supreme Court of Illinois at Ottawa has confirmed the sentence of death against August Spies, A. R. Parsons, Samuel Felden, Michael Schwab, George Engel, Adolph Fisher and Louis Lingg, to be executed on November II.
 The opinion states that the plaintiffs in error were tried for the murder of Matthias J. Degan. 'sIt is undsputed,' they say, ssthat the bomb was thrown and that it caused the death of Degan. It is conceded that no one of the defendants threw the bomb with his own hands. The plaintiffs are charged with | being accessories before the fact" The Hi nois statue which defines accessory as he who stands by and aids and abets, and which considers such accessory as principal, to be punished accordingly is quoted, and then the opinion goes on to state that if, therefore, the defendants advised, encouraged aided or abet- | ted the killing of Degan, they are as guilty as | though they took his life with their own hands. | The history of the crime begins with the in- | numerable strikes following the attempt to in- augurate the eight hour-day on Saturday, May l 1, 1886. Several small riots had occurred, and ] in every instance the Anarchists and Socialists | were active among the worllingmen melting l them to violence.
 On the evening of Tuesday, May 4, 1SS5, a large meeting of Anarchists was held at the l old Haymarket, on Rudolph street, in she vicinity of the large lumber yards, packing l houses and factories. August Spies, who was | recognized as one of their most ardent leaders, climbed into a wagon in front of Crane Bros' | factory and made an address denouncing capi- talists and calling upon his followers to assert | their rights and destroy their oppressors. He l was followed by Fielden, whose remarks were highly infammatory, and word was sent to the Desplaines street police station few blocks distant, that police protection was need cd.
 A squad of 125 men under command of In- spector Bonfeld, marched to the square and | called on the crowd to disperse. No attention | was paid to his demand, and the command was repeated. Then suddenly three bombs were thrown from behind the wagon on which the speaker stood, about fifteen feet from the off l cerS, which, landing between the second and l ranks of the police, exploded with terrible eff feet. Three policemen fell instantly dead their bodies tern and mangled VI.
 The police. however withstood the assault and answered. with their reyolvers The riot CTS were now crazel with rage and a desire for blood, and they poured a volley of bullets into the ranks of the police. Both sides fought stubbornly for time, but at last the Anarch- ists were forced to give way and they dispersed into the various streets and alleyways leading to the square. Eleven wounded rioters were at once captured and put under arrest.
 Three policemen were killed by the explo- sion of the bombs, and the wounded num- bered about fifty, of whom three died later. The next day August Spies and his brother Chris, together with Michael Schwab, were ar rested by Detectives Bonfield and Duffy at the office of the Arbeiter Zietung, the organ of the Socialists, of which Spies and Schwab were editors, and later in the day Samuel Fielding was also captured. He had received gunshot wound in the leg All four men took their ar rest quietly. The same evening a Coroners jury held an inquest over the body of Officer Dcgan, and recommended that the captured Anarchists be held for murder. The others were arrested soon afterward. Parsons at once fled from the city after the riot and remained in hiding in several cities, but was finally dis covered in Omaha a few weeks later